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Bill Cosby & Hugh Hefner Hit With Sexual Battery Suit Over 2008 Playboy Mansion Assault Claim

Just over three months after Chloe Goins d-ropped her federal lawsuit against Bill Cosby, the model is now hitting the actor and new defendant Hugh Hefner for sexual battery, gender violence and other c-harges stemming f-rom a 2008 incident that occurred at the Playboy Mansion.

“Defendant HEFNER’s actions of inviting and hosting young and impressionable and possibly minor children lo his residence, and providing alcoholic beverages and or foreign substances was negligent at the very least,” the jury trial requesting and damages seeking complaint filed Monday in l.A. Superior Court adds of adding the Playboy founder to the case (read it here). “Additionally, his act of inviting or housing and introducing Defendant COSBY, the Defendant HEFNER knew or should have known had a history of severe and serial sexual battery and or possibly rape of women was negligent at the very least, and Defendant HEFNER knew or should have known such actions would lead to harm of his invitees and Plaintiff.”

Back on February 2, Goins filed a dismissal “without prejudice” of her October 2015 case against Cosby, who she once called a “serial rapist.” While that action appeared to indicate a settlement has been reached in the lawsuit, the “without prejudice” part meant Goins could try to get Cosby before the courts again – as has happened today. That dismissal by the 26-year old model came less than a month after the L.A District Attorney’s office decided that Cosby would not not face criminal c-harges over the sexual assault incidents that allegedly occurred eight years ago when she was 18-years old. Part of the reason given at the time by D.A. Jackie Lacey’s office was that witnesses Goins had claimed existed would not back up her story.

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With somewhat graphic descriptions of how the now much accused Cosby allegedly plied her with drink, drugs and then, while she was “unconscious” assaulted and “molested” her, Goins’ lawyer Spencer Kuvin of West Palm Beach, Florida and new attorneyKevin Kensik of Rolling Hills Estates, CA today cited other cases that have emerged of past supposed Cosby incidents at the Mansion to claim host Hefner “was familiar with Defendant COSBY’s habit and act of intoxicating young women and spending the night with them while at his residence.”

While California laws says prosecutors have a decade to pursue criminal c-harges in a rape case, the statute of limitations is about half of that on assaults such as the one Goins has said occurred in 2008. Even so, an LAPD investigation of Goins’ claims  was handed over to the D.A on early October 1st last year. Today’s civil case and its pursuit of general and punitive damages may be the only avenue that Goins, like many women who have alleged similar incidents with Cosby, has now.

Over 50 women have come forward in recent years to claim that The Cosby Showcreator drugged and/or assaulted them. Currently, the only criminal case that has been filed is in Pennsylvania whe-re Cosby is fighting a trio of felony second-degree aggravated indecent assault c-harges that could land him a decade behind bars for the alleged 2004 assault of then-Temple University employee Andrea Constand. Today, the local D.A. in that case urged the state’s Supreme Court to reject Cosby’s attempt of last week to halt that action so an appeal could be heard.

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